CIFFI Update: Inland Salmon and Trout limit increasing for 2017

http://www.ciffi.org/2-uncategorised/78-meeting-with-dfw-report

2017 Regs (effective March 2017) will allow for 5 trout AND 5 inland salmon daily limits on most lakes (exceptions are the 10 bag limit discussed below). Salmon used to be co-mingled with trout for a total of only 5, now you could take home 5 trout AND 5 salmon (mix of kings or kokanee)

DFW is increasing the daily bag limit for inland salmon to 10 daily and 20 in possession limit at the following lakes ONLY: (For Example at Pardee, you can have 10 kokanee AND 5 trout Daily)

Pardee
Bullards Bar
Bucks
Trinity (kings included in the inland salmon limit count)
Scotts Flat

Kokanee will definitely be worth fishing for at Pardee now!  Lots of fish to can.

Thanks for the link Ben, I dig the increased bag limit on some of the lakes!  The ability to keep 10 little Bucks Lake kokanee in a day provides me greater incentive to drive up there.

There was a report (with photos) from Lake Haven Resort showing 12k-13k Chinook being planted into Almanor last month.  Not sure why the article didn't mention Almanor at all.

https://www.facebook.com/Lake-Haven-Resort-at-Lake-Almanor-164943846892420/

Thanks for the link Ben, I dig the increased bag limit on some of the lakes!  The ability to keep 10 little Bucks Lake kokanee in a day provides me greater incentive to drive up there.

There was a report (with photos) from Lake Haven Resort showing 12k-13k Chinook being planted into Almanor last month.  Not sure why the article didn't mention Almanor at all.

https://www.facebook.com/Lake-Haven-Resort-at-Lake-Almanor-164943846892420/

yeah, the 10 special limit at pardee will actually make it worth paying the fee to go there.  potentially catch 5 planter bows + 10 kokes?  Seems like a nice day.  Gotta get my canning game up though if I hope to take that many kokes.

Thanks for the info guys.  Maybe this year I'll catch my first Kokanee 

Sweet! I'm fishing the Pardee opener!

Sweet! I'm fishing the Pardee opener!

Worth going just to watch the shit show at the boat launch, and the mouth foaming action of the bankies as the truck dumps fish in and they swim around into the cove next to the launch! Throw in the occasional rattlesnake and it is a GoPro opportunity if I may say so myself! 

Sweet! I'm fishing the Pardee opener!

Worth going just to watch the shit show at the boat launch, and the mouth foaming action of the bankies as the truck dumps fish in and they swim around into the cove next to the launch! Throw in the occasional rattlesnake and it is a GoPro opportunity if I may say so myself! 

Lol, you seem almost giddy at the opportunity Rich.   

Thanks for the link Ben, I dig the increased bag limit on some of the lakes!  The ability to keep 10 little Bucks Lake kokanee in a day provides me greater incentive to drive up there.

There was a report (with photos) from Lake Haven Resort showing 12k-13k Chinook being planted into Almanor last month.  Not sure why the article didn't mention Almanor at all.

https://www.facebook.com/Lake-Haven-Resort-at-Lake-Almanor-164943846892420/

Do you know if almanor gets the feather river chinooks?  Would make sense.

Thanks for the link Ben, I dig the increased bag limit on some of the lakes!  The ability to keep 10 little Bucks Lake kokanee in a day provides me greater incentive to drive up there.

There was a report (with photos) from Lake Haven Resort showing 12k-13k Chinook being planted into Almanor last month.  Not sure why the article didn't mention Almanor at all.

https://www.facebook.com/Lake-Haven-Resort-at-Lake-Almanor-164943846892420/

Do you know if almanor gets the feather river chinooks?  Would make sense.

The CDFW fish biologist for this area told me the Almanor fish are all Klamath strain triploids.  But it's been a couple years since I asked her about it.  I have no idea where the most recent stock came from.  I agree that Feather River strain would make the most sense, both from an economics and genetic integrity standpoint.  Not really much point in sterilizing Feather River strain fish if you're going to plant them in the Feather River watershed.

Currently Oroville is the only recipient of Feather River fish, but that will change this year.

From the CA Inland Fisheries Foundation:
All Chinook currently planted in California lakes come from Klamath River and are triploided (except Oroville, which gets its own Feather River Chinook). Actual plant numbers are determined after Klamath River mitigation numbers (Federally Mandated) are met. If there are extra eggs, these are the candidates for planting into other lakes.

The 2016 plant numbers for Chinook was 18,000 in Shasta, 2,200 in Trinity, 1,800 in Whiskeytown. 42,000 Chinook were planted into Folsom Lake.

There will be zero chinook planted into California lakes in 2017, due to a extremely poor return on the Klamath – in fact the Federal mitigation numbers for the river itself were not even met.

To overcome a consistent poor return from the Klamath, the DFG will be moving the triploiding process/equipment to the Feather River hatchery and use Feather River eggs as the source for chinook for inland lakes. There is an abundance of Feather River eggs it is felt that for the foreseeable future it will provide a more consistent and abundant amount of plantable Chinook into our lakes. Due to the complexity of the process and staff training needed to ensure success, there is still work to do, but the DFW hopes to have 2017 ready to go; so Chinook plants will resume for 2107. This is a good step.